The bayyanar cututtuka bambanta dangane da wurin da ƙari da girmansa. Yayin da yake girma, ƙwayar ƙwayar cuta, ko mara kyau ko mara kyau, tana yin matsin lamba akan tsarin kwakwalwar makwabta, yana canza aikin su. Yi hankali, ana iya samun wasu alamomin ciwon ƙwayar cuta a cikin yanayin bugun jini, kumburin kwakwalwa, hematoma na intracerebral ko ma a wasu cututtuka na arteriovenous, don haka haɗarin rashin ganewar asali.

Wasu daga cikin alamun ciwan kwakwalwa da aka fi sani sun haɗa da:

• ciwon kai sabon abu, akai-akai da tsanani 
• amfanin tashin zuciya da amai 
• cuta hangen nesa : duhun gani, hangen nesa biyu ko asarar hangen nesa 
• amfanin Lambobi ko rasa ji a gefe guda na jiki 
• inna ko a rashin ƙarfi hannu daya ko kafa daya, a gefe daya na jiki kawai 
• Dizziness, matsaloli tare dadaidaita da kuma daidaito
• Matsalolimagana
• cuta mémoire et rikicewa
• A gyara na hali or hali, yanayin sauyewa
• cutaJi (musamman idan akwai neuroma acoustic, ƙari na jijiya na ji) 
• Ciwon farfadiya
• Rashin sani
• Rashin ci